Another thing to check actually, do you monitor your outbound wan port
usage on your router in any way? What kind is it?
More often than not, when I'd notice my bandwidth lagging, I'd check my
utilization at the cable modem port, and find one of my roommates doing
something on the network, downloading, bittorrenting, otherwise
consuming large amounts of throughput/connections. If you have others
in the house, I'd check what they might be doing too. Most wrt routers
can do this, or sniff the network with ntop too. I have shaped my
roommates traffic down before.
With cable modems, your downstream can be highly affected by your
upstream, where at times if you don't cap something like seeding
bittorrents outbound, you can generate enough upstream bandwidth your
downstream becomes impeded.
Depending on your router/firewall doing nat for your network, they at
times have connection limits that things like bittorrent can choke
easily, as do games too with mass amounts of udp packets. Oddly the
wrt54g* variants are still some of the best selling devices still with
only g-only radios, and are terrible for high-throughput with their puny
cpu's and 2.4ghz radios, so I always ask.
Suspect your router/local network, your work probably has a much better
firewall doing that effort to use the connection.
-mb
On 07/03/2016 06:50 PM, Nathan England wrote:
What got me even considering this is that at my house, with 150mb
service and a few devices streaming and playing games my general
download speeds and browsing speeds become noticeably bad despite my
speedtests continuously showing awesome speeds.
But at my office, with 50 or so other people using the same Cox
dedicated business account with 100mb speeds, it is consistently faster
than my house. And at the office most people are streaming music and or
netflix while surfing the web, despite all of that traffic speedtests
and general surfing speed is noticeably faster.
My assumption was the dedicated 100mb vs my shared 150mb and I thought
maybe a dedicated 25mb would be cool, plus a bonus of ports I want.
But you are saying there is not difference in the network makes me
really suspicious. What else could be different?
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